EDEN ROOTED
for a life rooted in nature
nature-centred coaching courses and workshops natural and rewilded gardens
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Einstein
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? — Mary Oliver
Coming home to yourself through nature
There’s a particular kind of restlessness that arrives in the middle of a capable life. You’ve done so much, and done it well — and yet something is quietly asking for more than that. Not more achievement, not more busyness, but something harder to name. A return to yourself, perhaps. A sense of being properly rooted again, in a life that feels genuinely yours.
If something in you is recognising that, you’re in the right place.
What if the answer were just outside your door?
In nature-centred societies across the world, the land isn’t somewhere people go to escape — it’s the living centre of everyday life, woven into how people work, rest, heal, make decisions and find meaning. The relationship is active, reciprocal, and rooted in the place where they actually live. And it changes everything — mental clarity, physical health, a sense of belonging to something larger and older than any single human story.
Most of us have lost that thread: what many Indigenous peoples call our ‘oldest knowledge'. But we haven’t lost the longing for it. And the extraordinary thing is that we don’t need to travel far to find it again — we just need to step outside, and begin.
An Eden Rooted urban garden: it's tiny but packed with medicinal herbs and food plants for humans and wildlife!
Nature is teacher, scripture and sanctuary — Sikh nature philosophy
A natural garden won Best in Show at Chelsea 2025 — celebrated for its native ecosystems, its resilience, its quiet, astonishing beauty, and for the question it seemed to ask of everyone who stood and looked: what if we stopped trying to control everything, and learned instead to work with what’s already here?
That question is as transformative in a life as it is in a garden.
Eden Rooted isn’t really about gardening. It’s about what becomes possible when you enter into a genuine, daily relationship with the natural world — and the garden is simply the most immediate, accessible and quietly powerful way to do that. It’s where the relationship lives. It’s where you show up, pay attention, and begin to listen differently.
Because nature is an extraordinarily wise companion for the questions that matter most. Its cycles and seasons offer a language for things that are hard to think through in the abstract — for transitions, for loss, for new beginnings, for the difference between forcing something and allowing it to find its own right time. When you’re standing in a living ecosystem you’ve helped to create, tending it through its changes and learning its patterns, those metaphors stop being metaphors. They become something you know in your body, not just your mind.
This is what makes the work different. We create your natural garden together — designing it, planting it, learning its inhabitants and its rhythms — and we use it, too. As a space for reflection, for hearing what nature is telling you, for working through the questions you’ve brought to this threshold. Big ones, sometimes. Questions about purpose and direction, about what you’re ready to let go of and what wants to grow.
You don’t need to be a gardener. You just need an outside space, and a willingness to pay attention.
The garden as portal
An Eden Rooted urban pond and bog garden, full of newts and enjoyed by all the locals!
What Eden Rooted offers:
Through one-to-one coaching, online courses, workshops, and hands-on garden projects, Eden Rooted helps you create a natural garden that becomes the living heart of your everyday life — and a relationship with nature that genuinely nourishes you, in all the ways you need most. We work with natural rhythms and seasonal cycles, with intuition and attention, with the wisdom that comes from slowing down enough to notice what’s already here.
It’s a grounded, real, and quietly radical way to come back
to yourself.
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Eden Rooted services
Nature guidance
for big decisions and
turning points
A one-day individually-coached retreat.
UK-wide
This lovely individually-coached retreat is designed to teach you the essentials of a relationship with nature, as well as coaching you through the issue you're facing. Whether it's a big decision or a major milestone, you will be guided in applying self-balance, inner wisdom, and nature’s guidance to answer your big questions and to give you the tools to move forward with joy and confidence into the next stage
of your life.
Workshops
Full-day workshops around the UK on a range of topics
I run public and private workshops on a range of topics. Browse the Events list below, or contact me if you'd like to talk to me about something special for your organisation or company.
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12-month programme
of at-home tailor-made personal development coaching with
nature connection
UK-wide
A unique 12-month one-to-one programme of tailored personal development coaching around the creation of a natural garden in your own outdoor space, whilst learning everyday and seasonal ways to interact and connect with nature and your
authentic self.
Personal development, cross-cultural wisdom, wellbeing, biodiversity, and convenience, all-in-one!
Upcoming Events
The user-friendly guide to happiness through a relationship with natureSat 28 FebDilston Physic Garden
Finding sanctuary: creating natural gardens in city spacesSat 14 MarDilston Physic Garden
Finding sanctuary: creating natural gardens in city spacesThu 19 MarJesmond Library
About
I'm Dr Juno
Dr Juno Quaintrell is a coach, educator, permaculturalist, and the founder of Eden Rooted. With a PhD in anthropology and musicology, a background in teaching, lecturing and the arts, and a lifelong relationship with the natural world, Juno has spent almost two decades exploring what it really means for humans to live in genuine relationship with the Earth — a question that has taken her around the world, and back, always, to the garden.
She works with people who are ready to listen differently — to nature, and to themselves.
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‘You do not have to be good… You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.’ — Mary Oliver
You don’t have to go far. You just have to begin.